Doctors at a hospital in Munich had to perform emergency surgery on a young woman at the weekend after she was hit by a cannon ball during rehearsals for the anniversary of the death of a medieval king.
The North and Baltic Seas may not be well known for pirates. Yet hundreds of years ago, as northern Europe's main trade highways, it was a different story. Few of its pirates were both as feared and revered as Klaus Störtebeker.
I gained a new surname when I moved to Germany. No marriage or legal conversion was involved, but rather my name as I knew it took on a different pronunciation and meaning.
Just over 40 years ago, Germany was gripped with fear as terrorists carried out a series of assassinations and bombings. The culprits? German youth – students and dropouts.
As Germany's financial capital and home to one of the largest airports in Europe, Frankfurt is no stranger to international attention. So here are some curious facts about a city with a rich past and a luxurious present.
After it was revealed last week that fifteen people in Sweden receive a war pension from Germany, authorities in Berlin said that the individuals receiving the pensions were not members of the Waffen-SS, the armed wing of the Nazi Party's SS organisation.
The Brandenburg Gate is a military monument that has come to symbolize peace and unity. Here are a few facts about the iconic monument that you probably won't know.
Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the continued importance of strong transatlantic ties and international cooperation to oppose rising populism and nationalism, during her acceptance speech for the J. William Fulbright Prize for International Understanding on Monday evening.
Berlin and Moscow announced on Sunday that Germany had provided €12 million to help Russian World War II veterans and siege survivors, but Moscow said it was not enough.
Deep in a period of historic weakness, Germany's sharply divided left-wing parties commemorate Sunday the larger-than-life revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg on the 100th anniversary of her murder.
Germany's far right is trying to rehabilitate the German Empire and its role in World War I, resuming a decades-old debate ahead of the centenary of the armistice.
As the home of the European Central Bank and the Deutsche Bank, Frankfurt is well-known as one of Europe's most important financial hubs. But how did the Hesse city develop into one of Europe's – and arguably the world’s – most influential cities?
With German unification celebrations just around the corner, we have been discovering the German Democratic Republic (GDR) monuments which have become a part of the cityscape of the new Berlin and reunified Germany.
Journalist Sarah Wilson explains what other countries can gain from 'Zeitzeuge', an untranslatable German word that encourages learning history from the traces of it that still remain.
Germany's highest court declared Tuesday that a Polish ruling against German public broadcaster ZDF in a dispute sparked by a Holocaust documentary has no legal force in Germany.
A forgotten, 20-metre long section of the Berlin Wall has been discovered by accident next to the headquarters of Germany’s intelligence services, authorities confirmed on Monday.
Cemeteries in Germany are more than resting places. Rather their histories and changing design make them spots to reflect on what it means to be alive today.
A Berlin museum on Monday said it had formally
restituted a 15th century religious wooden sculpture to the heirs of former
owners, a Jewish couple who fled the Nazi regime.
Sunday will mark 70 years since the beginning of the Berlin blockade, which led to a truly unique operation to help the citizens of West Berlin. The solidarity and friendship displayed are powerful images even to this day.
Many German fans were left stunned after the national team's first World Cup game against Mexico last Sunday ended in a 0-1 defeat. Some experts say die Mannschaft’s performance has to do with politics.
400 years ago on Wednesday, three men were thrown out of a window in Prague and only escaped with their lives after landing on a muck heap. But the attempted murder would go on to claim the lives of millions of people in the 30 Years' War.
Adolf Hitler definitely died in 1945 in Berlin, from taking cyanide and a bullet, according to French researchers who were given rare access to fragments of the dictator's teeth held in Moscow.
Germany's intelligence service BND had in the 1990s obtained from a Russian informer a sample of the poison used against ex-double agent Sergei Skripal, German media reported on Thursday, drawing a link to Moscow as the origin of the toxin.
